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January 13, 2003 - Welcome back

I'm back at school, and things are already in full swing. I went to two classes today, and got two homework assignments. And, in true form, I probably won't start either of them until after midnight Tuesday. My classes seem to be far away this semester; I even have one in Howe Hall, at the far end of campus. I have a couple labs in Coover Hall also. As such, I plan on being very lazy and taking the bus whenever possible.
The holiday break was excellent. I expect to put up some pictures of Christmas and our trip to Florida sometime soon, as well as some pictures of the New Year's party we all had. All in all, over break, I really didn't do very much, and it was most excellent to be able to just chill for a couple of much-needed weeks. Big thanks go to Emily for hostessing New Year's, and to Patty and company for hostessing a D2-fest.
Now to recreation: I acquired Xbox Live and Unreal Championship over break, and I must say it's one of the most addictive combinations ever. The play is incredible, and it's been eating a lot of my time. Fortunately, I don't see it losing its appeal anytime soon... :)
Things to do for the site include updating the school page and putting up the winter-break pictures. Possibly more if I get industrious.

January 16, 2003 - Slight delay, but lots of pictures

I spent a good three hours tonight just doing pictures. I have new galleries up for Christmas, Florida, and New Year's, as well as a couple of individual shots. That's all the site updates for tonight; it's 5:00 AM, and I'm tired.
The first week of classes is going well, but I'm anxious for it to be over. It doesn't seem like there should be five homework assignments due in the first week of class. Something's just not right about that. However, later in the semester, I figure I'm going to have about one test a week for about three months straight. That isn't going to be fun at all. What I thought was going to be an easy semester may not end up so easy. I guess we'll see.
Short update tonight, but like I said, it's 5:00.

January 20, 2003 - Happy day off!

I think I'm getting lazy again. Four days between updates, and still nothing to say. Fortunately, we get today off of school at least, so I can get away with being lazy for today. The only bad thing is that this is our only day off for the rest of the semester, excluding spring break. Seems almost like a waste to have it so early in the semester.
Regardless, the first week of classes went fine. This might be a tougher schedule than I was anticipating, since "Theoretical Foundations of Computer Engineering" apparently means "Discrete Math", my Sociology class is sounding like a lot more work than it should, and rumor has it that Circuits is quite the workload too. I guess we'll see later on.
Nothing special happened this weekend; matter of fact, most of it was spent either playing Xbox Live or sitting around and trying to come up with something to do. On the plus side, the Honors Program gave us free pizza last night.
I added Patricia's schedule up in the school section. Besides that, no big site changes. Maybe I'll do some work here soon. I'm thinking of adding a Programs section to include the stuff I've written recently, and some stuff I'm thinking of writing. Once I get them written, maybe I'll actually do it.

January 22, 2003 - Winter is definitely here

It's really frickin' cold here. Tonight's wind chills are supposed to be in the 30-below-zero range, and I, for one, believe it. I walked around campus just a little today, and it was incredibly cold. Spring can't get here fast enough.
Very little of interest is happening, other than a little bit of work here and there. My stint at the Daily should be getting into full swing soon, and I'm stoked, because I'm supposed to be doing some more Flash work for them. Ideally, I'll also have more hours and be doing more work, and consequently being paid more. The perfect situation. :)
I've determined that I'm at somewhat of a crossroads in my life... About now is the point where I should be figuring out who I am, how I want to live, what is important to me, where I want to go in life, et cetera. However, I have none of that figured out. I have no idea what I want to do for a job, where I want to live, what my 'purpose' is (assuming there is one in the first place, which I'm also not sure of), what I value, what I think, who I am ..... The list goes on. People tell me not to worry about it, that I'll figure it out, but it seems like I should at least have a starting point here. I'm making decisions that will affect the rest of my life without knowing where I want to end up, or how I want to get there. It just seems like I'm taking shots in the dark, and any one of them could ricochet back and hit me.
No site updates for now.

January 25, 2003 - Winter is still here

Another night of minus-twenty wind chills. Yikes.
Today was cool - we beat Nebraska, 71-61, in a high-intensity basketball game that was loads of fun to go to. Not feeling exactly myself, I declined going to square-dancing, but Patricia went and had a great time ... or so she claims. We all know the real truth behind square-dancing, though, don't we? I also spent a good amount of time just fiddling around today.... And I think I might be at least on the way to figuring some of this stuff out. We'll see.
Nothing for the site tonight... I did a little bit with the honor societies' site tonight, but nothing really beyond that. Hopefully I'll do something here soon, but I'm running out of ideas.
Enjoy your weekend, everyone!

January 28, 2003 - More of this winter crap

So I step outside today (keeping in mind that it's 9:10 AM, and I'm barely moving, much less articulate), and take two steps out of our building toward the bus stop... Next thing I know, I'm flat on my back. Holy crap, it's a friggin' ice storm. So it turns out that the entire campus was covered in about a tenth of an inch of ice, and apparently no one bothers to start salting the sidewalks until about 10 AM. On the plus side, falling like that definitely woke me up :)
I think this makes me a loser: I was bored in lecture this morning because I had already read the paper for the day, had already done Thursday's homework, and I've basically run out of other homework to do. So I actually *gasp* listened in class, despite *gasp again* not really learning anything. Go figure.
Despite being ahead on schoolwork, I'm massively behind on 'lifework'. For example, researching next semester in Australia, filling out the full Honors Program application, some stuff for my job, et cetera. Every time I try to do any of it, I just lose motivation.
Anyway, I'm tinkering with some scripting for the site... Ideally, pretty soon I'll have the ability for you to choose which logo and clock you want to see, and maybe other improvements too. Links page and guestbook are also in the works.

January 29, 2003 - New site addition

Hey hey, I got my act together (finally) and implemented a new section of the site. Welcome, everyone, to the Quote of the Day! Ideally, I'll update this every day or two with some random, stupid, or funny comment that I overhear (or say) somewhere on campus. Definitely an incentive to keep checking back every so often.
Also in site news, I'm having a devil of a time getting cookies to work. I'll play with them more later, but for now, it's not looking like I'll be able to do the whole choose-your-logo thing anytime soon. Less involved things like a links page will probably come first, but I am working on it.
School progresses normally, but work does not. I had my second meeting, out of four (!) this week, for the Daily. It turns out that from now until Dead Week, they're going to be doing one major special segment per week. This means that every week, I basically get to design a small, separate site, most likely with Flash on it. I'm not sure how long it'll take me each week, but it's way more work than I'm used to doing. We'll see how it goes.
Lastly, a big thanks to everyone who's been supporting me lately. It means a lot. :)